{"id":12429,"date":"2016-01-17T23:25:18","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T23:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12429"},"modified":"2016-01-17T23:25:18","modified_gmt":"2016-01-17T23:25:18","slug":"whats-with-this-national-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12429","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s with this &#8216;national poll&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/polls.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12432\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12432\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/polls-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"polls\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More often than not I&#8217;m going to look carefully at public opinion poll results.<\/p>\n<p>In this election season, we&#8217;re being inundated with them. Republican-leaning polls say one thing; Democratic-leaning polls say another. I\u00a0prefer to look most closely at polls unaffiliated with either party, or certain ideological think tanks, or media outlets I know to have bias in either direction.<\/p>\n<p>But one recent poll has me wondering: Is this one even relevant to anything?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/266181-poll-clintons-lead-rises-to-25-points-nationally\">Hillary Clinton leads Bernie Sanders <\/a>by 25 percentage points nationally, according to a poll released by NBC News and the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n<p>The relevancy issue?<\/p>\n<p>Well, consider a couple of things.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re both running for the Democratic Party presidential nomination, which means that they&#8217;re not going to face each other in a national election. Therefore, they are battling state by state: Iowa, then New Hampshire, then South Carolina . . . and on it goes.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ll get to Texas in early March.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, whether Clinton beats Sanders by a single percent or a million percent in a national poll\u00a0doesn&#8217;t matter one bit.<\/p>\n<p>How are they faring in each state?<\/p>\n<p>The poll does compare the candidates&#8217; chances against a potential Republican nominee and it shows Clinton faring better against the GOP foe than Sanders.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s relevant, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>However, these polls pitting one candidate against the other running <em>in the same party primary<\/em> simply doesn&#8217;t register with me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More often than not I&#8217;m going to look carefully at public opinion poll results. In this election season, we&#8217;re being inundated with them. Republican-leaning polls say one thing; Democratic-leaning polls say another. I\u00a0prefer to look most closely at polls unaffiliated with either party, or certain ideological think tanks, or media outlets I know to have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12429\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What&#8217;s with this &#8216;national poll&#8217;?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,14],"tags":[597,1339,2139,3236,3773,5154],"class_list":["post-12429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-democratic-party-primary","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-nbc-news","tag-public-opinion-polls","tag-wall-street-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12429"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12433,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12429\/revisions\/12433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}